I had a ton of notes I took at points in Miami during the NBA finals and all of it didn’t get into posts. So I’m closing out my notebook with bullet points to put a little bow on the NBA finals.

• People like to watch stars. LeBron James and Kevin Durant, the Heat vs. the Thunder — these finals drew the highest television ratings since 2004, the last year of the Shaq/Kobe Lakers. Game 5 drew a 12.8 rating, tied with last year’s series. For the entire series it was an 10.1 rating, which beats last year through five games and ties it overall (Game 6 was the highest rated last year, the longer a series goes the higher the ratings get for games).

• The Oklahoma City Thunder were very impressive in how they handled defeat — they were mature and said they needed to work this summer and come back better. You know they will. If they can bring this team back healthy and be able to sub in Eric Maynor (the injured backup point guard, who is a massive improvement over Derek Fisher) they are the biggest threat to a Heat repeat.

• That attitude comes from the top and coach Scott Brooks, watch the video of him telling his team right before the end “they beat us fair and square” and to go out and shake the Heat’s hands. That’s class. (via Ball Don’t Lie)

• LeBron James became the 10th player to win the league MVP and the finals MVP in the same season. Michael Jordan did it four times.

• President Barak Obama did call the Heat to congratulate them.

• I thought Bosh pretty much summed up what the Heat players said whenever you asked them about the general perceptions of this team:

“We don’t care. We don’t care because we know how everything changes so fast,” Bosh said. “Any time, if indeed it does change and everybody says, I knew you guys were going to do it and this is it, we’re going to be like, no, we’re going to remember the times when it was tough when we were down and everybody was kicking us.”

• I was especially happy to see a personal favorite guy in the league — Ronny Turaif — get a ring.

• Miami becomes the first team ever to trail in three playoff series (2-1 to the Pacers, 3-2 to the Celtics and 1-0 to the Thunder) and come back to win the title.

I admire what Brooks said, and it was all class on the part of him and the OKC players. But it worked with them because they’re a young team. I don’t think that would have gone over the same on a veteran team like the Celtics.

Really Kurt?!?!? Really?? “President BARAK Obama”………..wow SMH. That is just plain, DUMB. SMH I’m done with this website. HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SPELL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’s NAME WRONG?! Your a professional sports writer! Wow.

Haha, the grammar purist makes an appearance. If you’re going to correct other’s spelling (in a blog of all things), make sure your grammar is at least at a 3rd grade level. You sir, are the King of the Douche Kingdom.

Really Kurt?!?!? Really?? “President BARAK Obama”………..wow SMH. That is just plain,(no comma required) DUMB. SMH I’m done with this website. HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU SPELL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’s NAME WRONG?! Your(you’re)* a professional sports writer! Wow.

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When you’re trolling someones spelling, please make sure you don’t have any errors in your comment. Even if the original writer is a professional sports writer.